Ellipse und Satz als Elemente einer gemeinsamen strukturellen Domäne. Zu einem syntaktischen Verwandtschaftsverhältnis

Abstract

Abstract This paper aims at developing an approach for the structural description of ellipses that is based on syntactic relationship between ellipsis and sentence. Both kinds of syntactic units are considered to be similar and to be organized – with some modifications – by the same syntactic and semantic rules. Syntactic constituents of ellipses project k0-definite semantic places which determine the syntactic unit’s potential of being connected to a context. For this kind of projection valency of predicate expressions is a central concept. The approach presented in this paper is surface structure oriented. It is neither reductionistic nor autonomistic in a way that ellipsis and sentence are seen as independent types of syntactic units with respect to their structural organization.